Shutdown, properties vandalised after Assam Cabinet expansion

Guwahati, April 28: A day after Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal expanded his cabinet, dissidence arose among the state BJP, with supporters of ignored party legislators on Friday calling for a shutdown or indulging in acts of vandalism.

While supporters of BJP legislator from Morigaon, Ramakanta Deuri called a 12-hour dawn to dusk Assam bandh, supporters of BJP legislators like Prashanta Phukan and Aminul Haque Laskar also staged protests at Dibrugarh and Silchar on Friday.

A group of agitated supporters of Deuri took to the streets in different parts of Morigaon in Central Assam protesting against his non-induction as minister and blocking the national highway as well as state highways affecting vehicular movement and causing immense woe to people.

The agitators also vandalized commercial establishments who refused to shut down and stoned vehicles that tried to ply. The shouted slogans against the BJP led government, Chief Minister and the Central BJP leadership holding them responsible for not inducting Deuri in the cabinet.